homesick

Example Sentences

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He’s now sent hundreds of homesick New Englanders classic dishes, like pork fried rice and boneless ribs from area favorites like Golden Temple in Brookline and Fantasy Island in Salem.

From Salon • May 3, 2026

Even with all that milieu and surrounded by many of their countrymen, some Americans still get homesick.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

She spent just one homesick year at Wellesley College, where the walls of her rooms at Wellesley were covered with pictures of cows.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026

Lonely and homesick for a country suffering through war, Viktoria began sharing her worries with ChatGPT.

From BBC • Nov. 6, 2025

She wanted to learn to fish for words so that she could read aloud to her mother without worrying about who might come out of the stories and look at her with homesick eyes.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke